Chapter 1: Super sidekicks?
This wasn't good not good at all! Absolutely unacceptable!
"Mom, you know this is a horrible idea…N-not after last time…! Please don't make me do this again…!" I begged, my mom for the trillionth time as we parked in front of my school that I was to attend. We had just moved here to the city Metroville. We used to live in another city called Rocksvale city but after a couple little complications, we had to move.
Now you're probably wondering why moving away from Rocksvale was so important. Well it was basically my entire fault, actually. I don't know how it happened but it just did…! It was just some normal average day at Rocksvale high and I was sitting alone in the court yard eating lunch while reading my favorite comic book of all time and all of a sudden these two jerks came over and stole my most priced and favorite comic book. I've only read that comic book about fifty times, if not more! It had meant a whole lot to me and these boys just thought it would be funny to steal it from me!
I begged them to give it back to me and they laughed and taunted me and eventually threw my entire comic book into a puddle of dirty water on the ground. I don't know what happened to me but all of a sudden, I had gotten so angry I tried to push them away but instead these bright blasts of green light burst from my hands and knocked the two boys over on the ground and into unconsciousness!
My pale blue eyes and hands were shining a bright green aura. I could not tell you how terrified I was when that had happened. The students around the court yard had all rallied around the boys and me, and were all staring in shock, that some blonde, miniature, nerdy girl like me had done something so brutal. Not to mention they were horrified at my appearance since I was basically glowing green.
The teachers had come over and had suspended me from school that day. I was scared because I was usually considered the good girl. Plus, glowing colors and being able to shoot green lazars out of your hands was pretty unnerving. The school administration talked to my parents about the whole ordeal and ended up expelling me from the school. They accused me of practicing witch-craft…! Can you believe that…?!
I don't know anything about black-magic, well except for the magic, Mrs. Spell Castor in one of my comic books uses…! But I doubt that had anything to do with it.
So here I was in Metro city. My parents moved away from Rocksvale and went here because apparently abilities such as mine were more welcomed here. I didn't really care that we had left Rocksvale, it's not like I had any friends there anyways, except this one strange kid that never talked but other than that. I was basically out casted… I was actually excited we moved here, supers lived in this city and there was nothing more in the world that I would want to do then meet an actual super hero! The part that was bothering me was transferring to a new school. I just wanted to be home-schooled. I don't know if I could take the embarrassment again if something like that happened again. I didn't want to burden my family again with this really strange ability of mine. I kind of just wanted to be normal…So I could make a friend…One that actually talked back to me when I tried to engage in conversation with them …
"Wendy, Wendy…Please sweetheart, just calm down. It will be fine. I promise. Just try and not let that uh…'thing' happen again… Okay darling…?" my mother named Faith told me with a small sympathetic smile.
I sighed heavily and drug out my light blue super-hero styled messenger bag out of the van with me and slung the strap of it over my shoulder.
"Yeah mom, whatever you say." I muttered doubtfully and began walking cautiously over to the entrance of the large school. My mom waved me off with a blown kiss and drove away to leave me in this new world.
I breathed in and out over and over again to try and comfort myself. I was not going to be weird, awkward, and too nerdy. I am not going to screw this up. I kept telling myself over and over in my head and was so busy doing so, I ran straight into a tall muscular boy that had the school jacket on. He turned from talking to some girl and looked down at me. I gasped and took myself out of my trance and looked up at him sheepishly.
"O-oh hi…. S-sorry… I didn't mean to-"he cut me off and glared.
"Watch where you're going next time, huh…?" he hissed and I gulped and nodded quickly.
"Of course... Sorry!" I inquired nervously and sped by him as fast as possible. Way to make a first impression, Wendy. You're already looking like a big dunce!
I sighed and found my locker and began putting in my combo. It was when I was in the middle of putting in the combo I heard a bunch of ruckus coming from down the hall.
"HEY DWEEB…! Why aren't you out walking old ladies cross the street!? I thought you were some kind of super, Haha!" a dumb sounding boy that was dressed in a black leather jacket, with long brown hair began shoving a shorter kid that had light orange hair that was almost blonde and a most peculiar outfit on. It kind of looked like something a super hero would wear…
"H-Hey, stop it! Don't you realize WHO you are pushing around! I am Incrediboy…! Mr. Incredible's one and only, best side kick there is!" the boy shouted confidently.
The boy in the black jacket sneered and began laughing with his two other buddies that had tagged along side him.
"Can you believe this guy..? What a nerd!"
I frowned and felt completely livid with these jerks. They reminded me of those guys that got me kicked out of my last school. I stormed over to the three older boys and glared them while holding my books that I had gotten out of my locker, tightly to my chest.
"Hey, leave him alone! Don't you have anything better to do…?" I intervened while glaring the three through my pale blue eyes.
The three boys and the masked light orange headed kid looked at me all in shock.
The long brown haired guy sneered once again and stepped closer to me and looked down at my much shorter form with a smirk, "Well, well who's this…? His girlfriend…?" he inquired snidely and his two other goons began roaring with laughter at his comment.
I stared up at him without faltering from my angered expression, "I said leave him alone." I told him boldly and he narrowed his brown eyes at me more.
"And what if I don't little girl…?"
"Ohh..!" the two other guys chanted and began laughing some more.
The light orange haired boy stared at me in shock as if I was doing something taboo. I stood there and sighed deeply before glancing away nervously.
I wanted to look tough and kick the guy in the shin or something but I knew if I were to beat up some people on the first day. I could be suspended again…Or worse.
"That's what I thought…" He said with a smirk and was about to turn around back to the boy that had called himself "Incrediboy".
I felt anger shiver down my spine, it was then I didn't even realize what I had done. I pulled back my leg and kicked the boy as hard as I could right in the groin. The guy shouted in a high-pitched crackly tone before holding himself down south and stumbling backwards. His two guy friends watched him in horror and turned back to me with narrowed eyes.
"You're goanna pay for that!" They both hollered in unison and began racing towards me.
It was then the light-headed kid took action and ran towards me and grabbed my hand, "Let's go!" he shouted to me and began running and pulling me away from the scene.
We began running as fast as we could down the halls with the two other goons chasing after us from behind. The light-headed kid pushed through the many crowds of people and took a turn with me before quickly opening a closet door and ushering me inside with him. He closed the door behind us and put his gloved hand over my mouth as I squeaked when I heard the boys outside the door yelling for us to "come out and take it like a man".
We waited a couple minutes in the dark storage closet until the sounds outside went away. The boy sighed and took his gloved hand off of my mouth and suddenly turned the light on and looked at me with a sheepish grin.
"Wow…Well that was exciting…H-Heh…Thanks anyways…Though I could have taken care of them myself of course… But other than that…Who are you if you wouldn't mind me asking…?" he asked kindly.
I smiled shyly and laughed a bit," Oh…My name's Wendy…Sorry I butted in but I just don't like to see people get picked on." I replied and he nodded slowly with a doubtful look.
"I wouldn't say I was 'getting picked on' but I suppose you have my thanks, Wendy! So thanks again…!"
I smiled timidly and nodded, "Do they always act like that…?" I asked.
He nodded and began to slightly open the door and peek through it to make sure no other trouble was stirring from outside.
"Usually…But most of the time I just pity them because they are obviously jealous of who I am!" he told me with lots of pride in his tone.
"Oh…Who are you then…? U-uh, if you don't mind me asking, I'm not from around here. I just moved here a couple days ago…" I told him while trying not to offend my new orange-headed and blue masked friend.
He began to open the door for me and I stepped out of it and looked back at him to see him closing the closet door behind him and then turn to look at me with a smile.
"Oh a new-comer, huh..? Well, Wendy… Feast your eyes…! For I am thee amazing Incrediboy! The very super awesome one and only sidekick of Mr. Incredible, himself…!"
I looked at him and blinked a couple times before grinning dumbly, "A sidekick to a real hero…? That's amazing!" I told him excitedly.
He grinned even wider if possible towards me and nodded quickly, "Y-you really think so…!? W-Well…Of course, you would think so…! I mean it's not every day you meet a real hero!"
I smiled and nodded and glanced at my watch casually and jumped when I saw the time, "Ack…! I'm so late for class on my first day! U-uh not good…Um…I'm REALLY sorry but I really have to get going to class… Um, I'll see you later then uh…uhm...-"
"Oh...! Haha, its Buddy!" he told me with his grin never ceasing from his face.
"Oh…! Well Buddy then, Heheh…I'll see you around then…?" I asked politely and he nodded vigorously.
"Definitely…!"
I smiled sweetly towards him and nodded once more before waving him a simple good bye and began running off to my first class.
A couple classes went by. Nothing went out of the ordinary, fortunately. It was finally time for lunch and I was starved!
I walked in the lunch room and looked around for a place to sit in the large mass of different students.
It was then I saw a familiar face waving enthusiastically at me from an empty table in the back. I smiled when I saw Buddy, I started to walk back over to the table he was seated at.
"Hey, Wendy!" he stated happily and I smiled back towards him and sat down next him while putting my messenger back down on the table in front of me.
"Hi Buddy…" I answered back and began pulling out my lunch from inside my messenger bag.
"How have things been for you on your first day…!?" He asked and I glanced at him and shrugged a bit.
"Pretty good nothing out of the ordinary, which is a relief…?" I replied and took a small bite out of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
He nodded and his gaze seemed to pause on my messenger bag and his grin returned on his smiling face.
"Wow..! That's a nice bag you have there! It has all of the super heroes from Magma Jet's comic book, bonus edition 58! I didn't know girls were even into that stuff!" Buddy beamed in excitement as he gazed over the many details of the blue bag.
I blushed in embarrassment and shrugged with a light sheepish smile, "Y-yeah I'm kind of a nerd like that… I'm really into comics..."
"Really…?! That's so cool… You are literally like the first person at this school or…Really I ever met that was into this like I am!" he said and looked at me with an overly happy expression.
I nodded and set my sandwich down, "I was kind of like that back at my old school…Nobody appreciated comics or supers like I did…Everyone was too into other things like… Fashion, music, and all that other stuff…"
"Well I'm glad to know I'm not the only one… Say why did you leave your old school and move here to Metro city…? If ya don't mind me asking…?" Buddy asked curiously and I sighed shakily and glanced away from his bright ocean blue eyes.
"It's kind of a long story…And you probably won't believe me…" I confessed nervously.
"Oh come on…! Try me. We've got plenty of time!"
I took one more sigh before giving into Buddy's questioning, "Well…I used to live in a city called Rocksvale but we moved mostly because I…uhm…-"I fumbled with my hands on my lap and struggled to explain what had happened that day. It was embarrassing and most likely unbelievable.
"What's wrong…?" Buddy asked in concern, noticing my discomfort.
"I-I did something at my school that made us leave the city…."
"You did…? What happened?"
"These boys at lunch were bullying me and they threw my favorite comic book into a puddle and ruined the whole entire thing…I-I got so angry and I-….I-I reached out to push them away but something else happened…" I said shakily as I began looking in any direction except Buddy's.
Buddy cocked his head and stared at me in anticipation. I sighed one more time shakily before continuing.
"I-I blasted them with a green light that came out of my hands…My hands started to glow and my eyes did too…The boys went unconscious and the school expelled me and accused me of witch-craft…"
Buddy stayed silent a moment before reacting in the most unexpected way.
"You blasted them…? THAT'S INCREDIBLE! YOU MUST HAVE SUPER POWERS, WENDY!"
I froze on the spot and turned my head sharply towards Buddy's excited face.
"Super….Powers…?" I stated very slowly.
"Yeah…! Oh my ghosh, that's so cool! You know what…? I think I have an idea!" he exclaimed and I eyed him in confusion.
"Huh…What are you talking about, Buddy?"
"How about this…? I wouldn't ever ask just ANYONE to do this but I like you and you have super powers! So…I'll make you a proposition!" he told me still beaming in sheer excitement.
"How about you become Mr. Incredible's 2nd side kick..! Incredigirl…!"
My pale blue eyes widen and I almost snorted in laughter, "M-me…? A super-hero's sidekick…? I-I don't think so, Buddy…" I said doubtfully though part of me was screaming to jump up and down in joy and accept.
Buddy's face fell to a frown and he spoke up again in an almost begging tone, "Oh come on, Wendy! It would be perfect! Just think of the possibilities! You could save people's lives and fight next to the most amazing super-hero that has ever lived..!"
I bit my lip and pondered it for a moment. There were a lot of pros and cons to this situation.
Buddy sat there and clasped his hands together and watched me intensely with big bright blue puppy eyes.
"Oh please, Wendy… Please…!"
I sighed one last time and smiled a bit, "I-I guess…But I don't-"I was cut off to Buddy literally getting so excited he latched on to me with a death like hug.
"YES! THIS WILL BE AMAZING…! OR SHOULD I SAY INCREDIBLE! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE LOOK ON MR. INCREDIBLE'S FACE WHEN HE GETS TO SEE HE DOESN'T JUST HAVE ONE SIDEKICK BUT TWO! THIS IS SO COOL!"
I blushed and giggled slightly at Buddy's enthusiasm. Though I couldn't help but be a little curious…Did Buddy have a super power…?
Once Buddy let go of me I decided to ask him, "So um, Buddy do you have a super power…?" I asked curiously and he smiled sheepishly before replying to me.
"Well not really…no…-BUT I do have the best gadgets that I have personally made all by myself!"
"Really…? That's cool. Can I see one of them sometime…?" I asked and he laughed at me like what I said was ridiculous.
"Well DUH…! You're Incredigirl now! You'll see my awesome gadgets all the time. I might even make you one or two if you'd like!" Buddy said with a grin and I smiled and nodded.
"That would be awfully nice of you Buddy."
Buddy nodded quickly again, "My most favorite gadget I made is my rocket boots! They're actually my newest invention…! I'm going to use them for my next… OR I guess it will be OUR next run in with Mr. Incredible and the bad guys!"
I was about to reply to Buddy but the bell began to chime loudly and all the students in the lunch room began to stand up and throw away their food and move on to their next classes.
Buddy pouted and glanced over at all the students before he looked back at me, "I'll make you a costume too because no super hero or side kick is complete without a costume of their very own! Only thing is, I'm going to need your measurements…If you can… meet me after school and I can take you back to my house so we can get them real quick...If you can of course!"
I looked at him surprised but nodded, "Yeah, I don't think my parents would mind…I'll call them on my cell after school to make sure."
"Alright..! Awesome…! See you later then, Wendy….Or should I say…Incredigirl!" Buddy replied cheerfully as he threw his stuff out and began walking out of the lunch room with me and going off to our next classes for the day.
After school had ended I stood outside the school and called my parents to ask if going over to Buddy's was okay. They told me it was okay but they said to keep my phone on me at all times, just in case. They were always sometimes paranoid about different things like that but that's just how parents are to make sure their children are safe.
I waited for a couple moments and soon saw Buddy come running over to me with a smile.
"Hey, Wendy…! Did you call your parents…?" he asked and I nodded with a smile.
"Yup, they said it was alright…Though they gave me the whole parent talk since they haven't met you yet…" I mused and he laughed.
"If they only knew WHO I was! You couldn't be anywhere safer!"
I laughed and nodded. I had to admit he was pretty dorky but he was really sweet. And I guess I was pretty dorky myself so…We're the birds of a feather, huh…?
"Well come on…! We need to get your measurements and costume ready before something happens and Mr. Incredible needs us!" he exclaimed and grabbed my hand which made me blush a little in embarrassment. He didn't seem to notice though as he began dragging me away towards his house that actually wasn't too far away.
Once we arrived Buddy took me to his room. Apparently, his parents weren't there since they had been still working. So it was just Buddy and me at the moment alone in the house.
Buddy's room was absolutely covered and when I say covered I mean littered with Mr. Incredible related things. Posters of him, figurines of him, comic books of him, he even had a giant picture frame that was centered in the room with Mr. Incredible pictured in the middle (it almost looked a bit like some kind of shrine). And I thought I was obsessed with comics and super heroes! Buddy was absolutely infatuated with this guy!
"You've got quite the collection here…" I mused in amusement while looking around at the many decorations.
"Awesome isn't it…? I got a lot of it online! It's amazing all the things you can get on there." Buddy said to me as he was going through one of his drawers to find measurement tape.
"Wah-la..! Found it…!" Buddy shouted as he whipped around and showed me the measurement tape in triumph.
I blinked a couple times as Buddy seemed to pause in thought and his face went a little red.
"Hmm…I hope you don't mind, I'm going to have to um get kind of close to get measurements a-and what not…" he said much more quickly and quietly then I've ever heard him talk. I nodded sheepishly and shrugged.
"No big deal…"
He nodded quietly and went over to his desk and took out a piece of paper and a pen to write down the measurements. He then walked over very close to me and began sheepishly placing the tape around different parts of my body to get measurements for the costume.
To take my mind off the fact that Buddy was so close, I glanced around his room some more. I noticed he had a whole collection of different little gadgets next to his bed.
"You actually made all those yourself…?" I asked as he walked over and quickly wrote down one of the measurements on the piece of paper.
He glanced over at what I was talking about and smiled, "Yup, all by myself. Pretty cool, right…?"
"Way more than cool… I could never dream of making something like that without maybe hurting myself." I stated while laughing dumbly to myself at the thought.
Buddy chuckled and replied, "Well at least you have super powers… You should really show off your powers when ya get the chance. I would love to see them!"
I bit my lip and scrunched my face slightly at the thought, "I'm not even really sure how to use them, honestly…"
"Well you'll just have to practice! Practice makes perfect like they always say!" Buddy said and took the last measurement and wrote it down.
"All done!" he stated proudly and I turned to look at him.
"So…What exactly is the costume going to look like…?" I asked him and he gave a thoughtful expression.
"Well I thought I would make it close to my own design…But of course more girlish I guess…Since well… You're a girl!" He chuckled nervously at that and walked over and took out one of his gadgets.
"These are my rocket boots, awesome aren't they…? They're my newest design."
I looked at it and slowly put my hand out and touched it, which was a major mistake. Because right as I did I must of clicked the button to turn them on because they started to go berserk and fly out of Buddy's hands.
"AH. I-I'M SO SORRY!" I yelped and ducked as the boots began flying aimlessly around the room while making a mess in its path.
Buddy also yelped and ducked as his own gadget flew around. He quickly attempted to grab on to them before they made any more of a mess. He was thankfully successful and he turned them off but it accidently burned him a tiny bit in the process from the flames. He then breathed in and out in a sigh of relief while trying to ignore the tiny burn on his hand.
"I-I'm so sorry! I'm so stupid..! Jeez, I'm so sorry! Are you okay…?!" I chanted over and over again but he just chuckled slightly.
"It's okay, I'm fine…But next time…I don't think I'm going to let you touch them until I tell you how it works." Buddy teased and I blushed in embarrassment.
"Sorry…" I muttered one last time and shifted uncomfortably on my feet.
"It's no big deal. You didn't mean too…" Buddy reassured and put his rocket boots back where they once were.
"And this is exactly why I told you I could never make gadgets like you. They're out to kill me and possibly everyone else if I was to handle them..!"
Buddy laughed at me and smiled lightly, "It would have been fine…If you hadn't touched the manual button to turn it on."
"Ah jeez…" I murmured and then walked over and grabbed his hand.
"You're hurt…"
"Huh…? Oh, it's nothing... Just a tiny little burn…" Buddy said but suddenly something unexpected happened.
A green aura from where my hand began to glow and all of a sudden the burn on Buddy's hand suddenly began to disappear.
Buddy and I stared down at his own hand in shock.
"What the…" I muttered and Buddy's shocked face turned to complete and utter amazement.
"YOU HAVE HEALING POWERS…!?" He stated loudly in astonishment.
"Uh…I-I didn't know…I-I could do that…" I muttered and shook my head and looked at Buddy, face to face.
"That's wicked! See you're already improving and you haven't even met Mr. Incredible yet!"
"Well…that's shocking… And pretty dang cool..." I admitted and he nodded a lot.
"Way more than cool! Incredible..!"
I smiled at Buddy and he smiled back widely.
I could tell this was the beginning of a new and beautiful relationship.